Polar Exploration Adventures

Author : Barbara Saffer,Henry H. Brecher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736805729

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Polar Exploration Adventures by Barbara Saffer,Henry H. Brecher Pdf

Dare your students to read and learn with this edge-of-your-seat series on record-setting, high-risk adventures. With vivid photography and intriguing text on journeys that battle fierce cold, sail through the clouds, dive into ocean depths, and or climb the highest mountain peaks, these books leave readers feeling as though they were tucked safely in the adventurer's backpack the whole time. Explanation of crucial safety gear, route maps, diagrams, and sidebars also are included.

Author : G. Firth Scott
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547364399

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The Romance of Polar Exploration by G. Firth Scott Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Romance of Polar Exploration" (Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "Discovery") by G. Firth Scott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787202528

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Arctic Adventure by Peter Freuchen Pdf

Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole—adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way. Arctic Adventure is filled with tales of seal and polar bear hunts, enduring starvation, encountering people who had resorted to cannibalism, and the stirring experience of seeing the sun again after three months of winter darkness. Rich in human saga, Freuchen’s warmth, wit, and literary talent make this recollection of real-life adventure stories a stand-out. “Except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time.”—Evelyn Stefansson, The New York Times “[A] formidable and fascinating man”—Harriet Baker, AnOther Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.

Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108071437

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My Life as an Explorer by Roald Amundsen Pdf

The 1927 autobiography, in English translation, of the first man to traverse the North-West Passage and to reach the South Pole.

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780008131944

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Grand Adventures by Alastair Humphreys Pdf

‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.

Author : David H. Stam,Deirdre Corcoran Stam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1605830844

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Adventures in Polar Reading by David H. Stam,Deirdre Corcoran Stam Pdf

Based in part on his own naval experience, including duty in Antarctica, and informed by extensive archival and secondary research, David Stam's book examines the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881-83 in northernmost Canada. Stam's study also includes analysis of shipboard- and expedition-based periodicals throughout the so-called Heroic Age of exploration (ca. 1880-1921); a definitive essay on the enduring books of Ernest Shackleton's legendary journey aboard the Endurance; a parallel study of the primarily religious literature distributed as Loan Libraries of the American Seamen's Friend Society; and, finally, an account of the three libraries assembled by Richard Evelyn Byrd for the successive bases at Little America (1929-41). The volume is bookended by chapters that provide an autobiographical account of how Adventures in Polar Reading came to be written and extensive suggestions pointing the way to topics of research that Stam's methodology might enable for other scholars.

Author : Matti Laineman,Juha Nurminen
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1844860698

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A History of Arctic Exploration by Matti Laineman,Juha Nurminen Pdf

With the character of the Arctic in a dramatic state of flux, and arguments over sovereignty once again rising to the surface, it is timely that a history of the exploration of this remote region be published. Wide-reaching in its scope and beautifully presented with artworks, maps and charts from the Nurminen Foundation and numerous European museums, private collections and archives, this is a full account of the many explorers from both East and West who attempted to find the North-West and North-East Passages, and to chart and document the region to enable the mythical North to gradually take shape and become part of the world picture. The story of man's skill and initiative in bringing an understanding to such an inhospitable part of the globe is described through the daring adventures of Viking sailors such as Erik the Red, navigators Barents and Bering, and explorers of the wilds such as Chelyuskin and Franklin. Equally, the stories of those disasterous voyages in search of the North-West and North-East Passages are presented in detail. The journeys of the great scientific explorers – Cook, Nordenskiold and Amundsen – remind the reader of the bravery of those who set their sights towards the uncharted North. Bravery and endurance were not sufficient for the almost incredible feats of Nansen and Peary. Success in extreme conditions was only achieved by those expeditions that appreciated the ferocity of nature and took example from the indigenous peoples – those who had lived in the North long before the coming of the Europeans.

Author : John Tillotson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433000641039

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Adventures in the Ice by John Tillotson Pdf

History of exploration, mainly of Canadian arctic, and search for Northwest Passage. Account of arctic whaling, and some autobiographical reminiscences of Captain William Penny.

Author : John Tillotson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600075036

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Adventures in the ice: a summary of Arctic exploration, discovery and adventure by John Tillotson Pdf

Author : Tom Avery
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466817586

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To the End of the Earth by Tom Avery Pdf

To the End of the Earth tells thrilling true adventure of a deadly trek to the North Pole, a 100 year old mystery and an inspiring tale of polar exploration April 2009 is the one-hundredth anniversary of perhaps the greatest controversy in the history of exploration. Did U.S. Naval Commander Robert Peary and his team dogsled to the North Pole in thirty-seven days in 1909? Or, as has been challenged, was this speed impossible, and was he a cheat? In 2005, polar explorer Tom Avery and his team set out to recreate this 100-year-old journey, using the same equipment as Peary, to prove that Peary had indeed done what he had claimed and discovered the North Pole. Navigating treacherous pressure ridges, deadly channels of open water, bitterly cold temperatures, and traveling in a similar style to Peary's with dog teams and replica wooden sledges bound together with cord, Avery tells the story of how his team covered 413 nautical miles to the North Pole in thirty-six days and twenty-two hours—some four hours faster than Peary. Weaving fascinating polar exploration history with thrilling extreme adventure, this is Avery's story of how he and his team nearly gave their lives proving Peary told the truth.

Author : Polar voyages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600081110

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Recent polar voyages. A record of discovery and adventure, from the search after Franklin to the British polar expedition: 1875-1876 by Polar voyages Pdf

Author : Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459739727

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The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame by Joanna Kafarowski Pdf

The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596918931

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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were members of the expedition the first to climb the active volcano Mount Erebus and the first to reach the South Magnetic Pole, but Shackleton himself led a party of four that trudged hundreds of miles across uncharted wastelands and up to the terrible Antarctic Plateau to plant the Union Jack only ninety-seven miles from the South Pole itself. Based on extensive research and first-hand accounts Riffenburgh makes the expedition vivid while providing fascinating insight into the age of British exploration and Empire. Beau Riffenburgh is a historian specializing in exploration. A native of California, he earned his doctorate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, where he is currently the editor of Polar Record. He is the author of the critically praised The Myth of the Explorer and editor of the Encyclopedia of the Antarctic. A Selection of the History Book Club "Riffenburgh's perceptive book blends first-hand accounts with original research and a fast-paced narrative, providing a cracking adventure."-The Times Literary Supplement UK "A masterful balance of true drama and first-rate scholarship. The narrative moves with the speed of a novel, while the author's unerring eye for historical detail captures the essence of polar exploration and explorers and locates Shackleton and his men in the grand scheme of empire."-Sir Ranulph Fiennes Also available: HC 1-58234-488-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-488-1 $25.95

Author : Samantha Seiple
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545562775

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Byrd & Igloo: A Polar Adventure by Samantha Seiple Pdf

From the author of GHOSTS IN THE FOG comes a story that will appeal to lovers of history, adventure, and dogs. BYRD & IGLOO will be the first narrative nonfiction book to tell the daring adventures of legendary polar explorer and aviator Richard Byrd and his lovable dog explorer, Igloo. Byrd is known for being the first to fly a plane over the North and South Poles, while Igloo is famous for being the only dog to explore both the North and South Poles. The adventures of Byrd and Igloo opened the door for science and research in the Antarctic. Featuring direct quotes from letters, diaries and interviews, newspaper clippings, expedition records, maps, charts, as well as never-before-seen photos, it will give the complete story of the explorers' journey. Though rooted in history with evidence from many museums and research centers, Byrd & Igloo will be exciting in tone, making it accessible and interesting for young readers.

Author : S. L. Hamilton
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1445140780

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Polar Exploration by S. L. Hamilton Pdf

Kick excitement into high gear with this extreme title! Short, easy-to-read text pairs with full-colour, action-packed photos to introduce young adventurers to polar exploration. Readers will learn about the tools and equipment used in exploring the North and South Poles, as well as dangers and safety tips. They are introduced to transportation methods and conditions at each pole, including animal life and ice formations. Extreme facts supplement the text, leaving future explorers excited for an polar adventure!